Just to add a few more bits to the story below.... My wife recorded one of those two goofy SyFy shows, so it's really odd that it got stuck in the buffer when it recorded the whole show. The end of the show where there were issues showed the symptom of the jumpy scanning, that is it jumps forward and then back a bit when scanning through a program. I didn't think to check if the program froze in the same spot as the buffer had issues. It was the earlier of the two shows that was recorded, the one that aired at 1am.
Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glen Farney" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:01 AM Subject: [TiVo Central] More strange behavior from a S3HD box > Ok, the next chapter in the odd behavior. I spent a little more time with > it and have a series of symptoms to describe. > > First a refresher on the setup.... Tivo HD with a 320g hard drive from > Weaknees. Audio is routed to a surround sound setup, and video is routed > via A/V cables to an old school 27" TV. A parallel run of AV is sent to a > VCR/DVD recorder which then goes to the TV via a separate input. > > I turn on the TV and audio, and am greeted with a blank screen and no > audio. > Same from both outputs/inputs. > > Both tuners are on the same channel, in this case SyFy (why they went to > that goofy spelling I have no idea). Both tuners were analog, but cable > cards are installed. > > Two different shows are in the buffers on the two tuners, both are made > for > TV movies with the less than compelling story line, high school level > special effects, and marginal acting. But that's not important right now. > One show aired at 1am, the other followed at 3am. It's now 9am. > > If I jump back to the beginning of the buffer, I can now view the show and > hear audio. > > I can fast forward through the buffer (one buffer is the full 30 minutes, > the other appears to be about 15 minutes) and stop and play at any point > except the end of the buffer. > > If I reach the end of the buffer (I call it "real time"), the picture goes > to the last frame and freezes, as does the audio. > > Now here's the interesting part... the buffer appears to be recording > still, > when I turned on the tube, it showed 9:01 as the current time on the > leading > edge of the buffer. But, the program that is in the buffer is NOT the > current show listed in the guide. This is true of both buffers, and the > two > buffers have different shows. > > And just to make things really interesting, when I watch the show in > normal > time from a few minutes before the freeze point, it stops at the same > point > in the show. But read back to the buffer advancing, originally this took > place at 9:01, now it's taking place at 9:10, and later will occur at > 9:15. > It seems the unit is not recording buffer, but the status bar seems to > indicate it is, as it is advancing the buffer. > > I know from past experience that a reboot/restart of the player will clear > things up for a while, maybe a day or two, maybe a month. > > This time I chose a program on another channel in the guide and asked it > to > record, it changed the channel and started recording, but the buffer sat > with nothing in it, and a blank screen.. I gave it some time, it was not > recording, but did appear to change the channel. > > I checked the other buffer, no change, same as above. > > I tried to change channels on the tuner that was recording, which caused > it > to switch to the tuner that wasn't recording, and the channel then changed > and started behaving normally, I could see the program, it was correct, > behavior was back to normal. > > I changed to the other channel, and it was still on the program I asked it > to record, but it is now recording properly and it too has returned to > normal. I changed channels a few more times on both tuners and all seems > to > be back to normal. > > I checked the ToDo list and Recording History, and no shows were supposed > to > record last night, so I can't tell if it would have recorded a show as > planned, I seem to recall that in the past I've ended up with recorded > shows > that were empty, I'd always blamed that on cable card issues, but never > proved it, now I'm not so sure. It did record a Tivo Suggestion last > night > around midnight, but that recorded ok. > > So what say ye great Tivo gurus, will the new 1TB hard drive I just > ordered > last night fix my issue, or am I sending the poor thing back to Tivo for > repairs. > > Glen > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
